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App updates don't delete previous versions

Bug #1483590 reported by bzrudi on 2015-08-11

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1265250: Storage shows same app multiple times (pre-installed and update from click store). Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Canonical System Image	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Phone: BQ E4.5 Software version r24

It seems that some (or all) App updates don't delete the previous version from device. I see plenty of duplicate Apps appearing under: Settings->About this device->Storage (it's Speicher in German, so not sure ;) )
In the list many apps are listed twice, some with the same size, some with different sizes. So I think the old versions are still present and thus wasting storage?

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bzrudi (bzrudi) wrote on 2015-08-13:

List with duplicate entries and even entries with no name Edit (462.4 KiB, image/png)

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Dan González (gonrodda) wrote on 2015-08-20:

I've not done a proper research on this, but since the same duplication described here also caught my attention, I have listed, from terminal, files in /opt/click.ubuntu.com related to the apps that storage use reports twice (most notably Reminders, Music, Tagger or Tasks). The contents in that directories are basically the version installed and a symbolic link (named current) to that version.

So I bet that, despite being reported twice, no more than one version is installed and the bug is in the reporting tool instead.

Dan González (gonrodda) on 2015-09-10